Jonkeria
Extinct genus of therapsids / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Jonkeria is an extinct genus of dinocephalians. Species were very large and omnivorous (although there is some dispute to this, e.g. Colbert 1969 p. 136), from the Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone, Lower Beaufort Group, of the South African Karoo.
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Jonkeria ingens skull, Amer. Mus. No. 5608 | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Synapsida |
Clade: | Therapsida |
Suborder: | †Dinocephalia |
Family: | †Titanosuchidae |
Genus: | †Jonkeria Van Hoepen, 1916 |
Type species | |
Jonkeria truculenta | |
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